Also known as MHN-UABCS Te5
Where: Baja California Sur, Mexico (24.3° N, 111.0° W: paleocoordinates 24.9° N, 97.2° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Tepetate Formation, Lutetian (47.8 - 41.3 Ma)
• "early Middle Eocene"
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; poorly lithified, yellow, calcareous siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: collection in the Museo de Historia Natural, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California Sur
Primary reference: G. González-Barba, T. Schwennicke, J. L. Goedert and L. G. Barnes. 2002. Earliest Pacific Basin record of the Pelagornithidae (Aves: Pelecaniformes). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 22(3):722-725 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 87017: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 28.02.2009
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